[ US /ˈməðɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
    the mother of three children
  2. a term of address for an elderly woman
  3. a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
    necessity is the mother of invention
  4. a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
  5. a term of address for a mother superior
VERB
  1. make (offspring) by reproduction
    Abraham begot Isaac
    John fathered four daughters
  2. care for like a mother
    She fusses over her husband
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How To Use mother In A Sentence

  • There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.
  • Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
  • Upstairs were the bedrooms; “mother-and-father’s room” the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a “washstand, ” a “bureau, ” a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
  • All the while their mother snorted, shuffled about a bit and then went back to sleep. The Sun
  • His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
  • Her mother has written to him explaining the situation but has not heard back.
  • The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
  • The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
  • Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
  • Mewme was an old cat not like the playful little kitten that Alison had first encountered after her mother entered her life.
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